Stroll Through the Archives
There are a number of ways to browse the archives. If you’re new to the site, take a gander at the recommendations — it’s a great way for new visitors to get a feel for what Frozen Toothpaste is all about. You can also browse linearly in the date section, “cloudily” in the tags section, and “categorically” in the category section. And of course, that ever-present search box is an easy way to find what you want in the catalog.
Recommendations
Now ideally, you’d immediately recognize my genius, read every word of mine available here, and then devote the rest of your life to showering me with money and adulation. Sadly, I’m aware that that’s incredibly unlikely and absolutely undeserved. As a small concession to that melancholy reality, here are nine selections that you might like:
- The Mandarins — Examining the shifting nature of authority
- Review: Downfall — Can you — should you — humanize Adolf Hitler?
- Charting the Blogosphere — A look at the basic composition of the blogosphere
- On Slaying Dragons — What I learned from the mythical creatures
- Coalition Against Animal Racism — Is the American Kennel Club racist?
- The Two Greatest Commandments — Considering what Jesus was really about
- I, like you, do the best I can — A consideration of our similarities
- OPW: Anthony Bourdain — Considering the nature of conflict, violence, and humanity
- The Problem of the Guest Worker — A critique of every immigration reformer’s pet idea
By date:
June 2008
May 2008
- The One-Off News
- The Narcissism of Communication
- OPW: "Man Writes Poem"
- Progress Report, May 2008
- A Drop in the Bucket
- Vestigial Fear
- OPW: Stephen Colbert's Knox Commencement
- Review: Bloggingheads
- Tomorrow, You'll Be Dead
- Good, Necessary, and Just
- OPW: Harry Chapin on Tiredness
- Review: The Story of Stuff
- Every Nation is an Illusion
- OPW: Assignment #1
- Necessarily Callous
- Consuming and Creating
- In Defense of Voting on Character
- A Review of this Review
April 2008
- Some Days You Just Can't Write Anything
- No Going Back
- OPW: Reallocating Social Surplus
- Length and Strength
- How To Steal an Election
- OPW: "Snow, Aldo"
- Infinite Information
- Review: Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
- Taking a Week
- The Protester's Imperative
- OPW: Mo Udall and John McCain
- Of Politics and Compassion
- On Being Small
- Review: Born Into Brothels
- OPW: Robert Kennedy on the Death Of Martin Luther King
- This One's About Fear
- Prosperity, Then Peace
- Some Days
March 2008
- Review: Lake of Fire
- OPW: "Far Out on the Uncharted Arm"
- Criticism is Like Cancer
- What's Wrong With Talking?
- Considering Conspiracy Theories
- Review: Raining McCain
- OPW: "The Aliens"
- "And Parody Myself"
- How I Forgot Iraq
- If You Get the Chance...
- Review: For the Bible Tells Me So
- OPW: What the Uneducated Woman Told Me
- The First Draft
- Globalization as Entanglement
- Thinking About Thinking
- Review: Gone Baby Gone
- OPW: THEBLOG WEEMADE
- Dispatches: Free and Fair Elections
- By the People, For the People
- Foolishness
- Retroview: In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
February 2008
- OPW: "Riveted"
- What is Dispatches?
- Kosovo and Separatism
- The Coming Spring
- Review: Protagonist
- OPW: The Great Gatsby
- Of Ideas and Word Counts
- A Good Week For International Change
- Be Your Own Protagonist
- Review: Philosophy Bites (Podcast)
- OPW: "All That is Glorius Around Us"
- Writing is Useful
- What Might Have Been: Unity '08
- Writing is Wasteful
- Retroview: The Microwaved Quesadilla
- OPW: Matthieu Ricard on Busyness
- Dispatches: The YZ Prize for Peace
- About Super Tuesday
- Tidbits
- Review: Blame it on Fidel
- OPW: "The Future"
January 2008
- On Privilege
- Kenya and International Impotence
- Of Originality and Theft
- Review: Obama's SC Victory Speech
- OPW: 'Radical Love Gets A Holiday'
- Dispatches: A New Way to Fight Recession
- Savage Politics
- How To Spend a Do-Nothing Day
- Review: The Agronomist
- OPW: I'll Wave Good-bye When Butter Flies
- Signal, Noise, and Lou Dobbs
- Moderating the "Undocumented" Issue
- On Dog Poop, Again
- Retroview: Happiness: A Guide
- OPW: Finding Commonality Inside Iraq
- The Triviality of Difference
- Watching America's Game
- My Problem with Fiction
- Review: The Neitzsche Family Circus
- Twinkle, Twinkle, E-F-G
December 2007
- The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
- On Break until 2008
- OPW: Max Ehrmann's "Desiderata"
- But What Is a Blog? & My Answer
- "There is almost no problem we can solve all by ourselves"
- The Joys of Life, the Moon, and Reading
- Review: Love Actually
- OPW: Hemingway on Parental Infallibility
- State of the Blog, December 2007
- The Nuclear Dilemma
- 'Bloggers,' 'Writers,' and Media
- Review: A Week of Colorado Weather
- OPW: "Beside the Point"
- The Mandarins
- Of Teddy Bears and Ignorance
- In Defense of Wikipedia
- Review: Downfall
November 2007
- OPW: I Used to Be but Now I Am
- Dispatches: Lying Well
- Governing is Campaigning
- The Myth of the Magic Bullet
- Review: Helvetica (Documentary)
- OPW: Norman Mailer on America
- Happy Thursday!
- On Being an Egomaniac
- Review: The Bugle (Podcast)
- OPW: "The Necessary Brevity of Pleasures"
- "Working to Live" and Other Lies
- Was Reagan A Racist?
- Professional Human Beings
- Review: Yesterday, Raking Leaves
- OPW: Woody Allen on What's Good in Life
- The State of the Unions
- The Ron Paul Phenomenon
- Technology and Trivia
- Review: The Wind that Shakes the Barley
October 2007
- Taking the Week Off
- OPW: "They'll" by Cheryl Denise
- Dispatches: The Evolution Party
- Considering the "FairTax"
- The Serenity Prayer
- Retroview: Tacky the Penguin
- OPW: The Ethics of Belief
- Distinguishing Among the Ignorant
- A New Environmentalism?
- Ignorance is Dangerous
- Review: American Blackout
- OPW: John Burns on Iraq
- Generation Q?
- Being Under Attack: War, Genocide, Terrorism & Nuclear Proliferation
- Good to Know: Maslow's Hierarchy
- Review: Ken Burns's The War
- OPW: "To My Yugoslavian In-Laws"
- Learning How To PBS
- The Trouble with Myanmar
- On Demanding Idealism
- Review: The Sun is Always Brighter by Joshua James
September 2007
- OPW: The Economist on Sputnik's Legacy
- Good to Know: What is microlending?
- Global Warming Pessimists
- Charting the Blogosphere
- Review: My Date with Drew
- OPW: David Callahan on Honoring Work
- Jena, Duke & Justice
- Banks, Money, etc.
- Will the Republican Platform Change?
- On Slaying Dragons
- Review: The Moral Center
- OPW: "Jabberwocky"
- Fossil Fuels are Dangerous
- Did the World Change on September 11?
- Gray Days
- Review: Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
- OPW: "The Book of A"
- Dispatches: Coalition Against Animal Racism
- Doldrums and Departures
- In Praise of Conversations
- Review: onBeing
August 2007
- OPW: The Dilemma of Belief
- Democratization of Celebrity: Perez Hilton et al.
- The Politics of Good Enough
- On Brown Houses, and Paying Attention
- Review: The Average American Male
- OPW: "The Mower" by Phillip Larkin
- Celebrity Culture is Pure Subterfuge
- How John McCain Would Lose the "War on Terror"
- Run, Michael, Run
- The Law of Attraction is Hooey
- Review: Maxed Out
- OPW: Ariana Huffington on Charity & Poverty
- State of the Blog, August 2007
- The Two Greatest Commandments
- Bandwidth and Information
- Review: Aristide and the Endless Revolution
- OPW: "Acceptance Speech"
- Criminalizing Abortion
- On Checking Out (and In)
July 2007
- Taking A Break
- Review: The Race Beat
- OPW: The Poets' Annual Indigence Report
- Review: Hometown Baghdad
- I, like you, do the best I can
- HSBC Finds Unexpected Attitudes Toward Climate Change
- The Problem of Heaven and Earth
- Review: Idiocracy
- 'Stop Trying to "Save" Africa'
- On Writer's Block, Procrastination, and a Solution
- OPW: "A Primer on the Daily Round"
- The Lives of Dogs
- Random Reincarnation
- OPW: Ray Bardbury's Byzantium
- 'China executes ex-food and drug chief'
- On Missionaries, Religion, and the Police
- Review: The 1/2 Hour News Hour
- Bob Thurman on Compassion
- OPW: Fareed Zakaria on July 4th and Citizenship
- 'Falcons sign Japanese reciever from NFL Europa'
- Good To Know: founder vs. flounder
- The Yellowest Sun
- Africa, Development, and Bono
- Happy Wednesday!
- Ten Reasons to Avoid Bottled Water
- OPW: Bill Gates on Challenging Inequality
- Review: Jesus Camp
June 2007
- Global Unease With World's Major Powers
- On the School Busing Ruling
- iPhones, etc.
- On Time
- OPW: Zbigniew Brzezinski on America's Role
- What is a criminal?
- Andy Stern on The Charlie Rose Show
- Tagged! or Eight Things about Me
- Five Frequently Forgotten Facts about Pirates
- From the Past: To My Teachers, Thank You
- In Praise of Simplicity
- Other People's Words: Anthony Bourdain
- Review: Stranger Than Fiction
- Review: The Greatest Salesman in the World
- Impressions in the carpet
- Retroview: The Little Prince
- Five Reasons that Unicorns are Better than Penguins
- Review: The News from Lake Wobegon (Podcast)
- On Dog Poop
- Doubts About the Working World
- PostSecret: Father's Day
- Dispatches from the Field: The Lost City
- Other People's Words: Happiness
- Review: An Unreasonable Man
- The Torturous Minutes
- Fiction: Conversations I Don't Have with my Dog
- Review: Creature Comforts (US)
- Retroviews, An Introduction
- Non-Review: The Departed
- Changing the World with Ideas
- Misguided Reform: The Problem of the Guest Worker
- On Graduation
- Other People's Words: "The Calf Path"
- From the past: Vote for me in 2024
- Meeting William Stafford
- In Praise of Mses. Hilton and Spears
- Dispatches from the Field: Land Speed Record
- After Bush: How to Restore America's Place in the World
- The song remains the same
